The home team: I know it’s expensive for the people of Mobile to attend an Alabama football game, and if you are not a big-time contributing alumni it’s hard to even get tickets. Nothing wrong with being an Alabama or Auburn fan, but we do have a university that is playing FBS football right here in town and they’re doing pretty good. The crowds are getting bigger and the tailgating is great. I take my son there and it would be great if people took their entire families. Then maybe South would build a football stadium on campus and it would be a real campus atmosphere at South Alabama.

We need a dome!: Can Mobile please build a covered dome stadium for the Jaguars, the SEC and the bowl games we have here? Wake up Mobile! Let’s get rid of the cruise terminal and put a big covered stadium for concerts and other events downtown. A domed stadium might be the answer to save Mobile’s downtown area. They could phase out Ladd-Peoples or better yet, make it bigger and better and put a cover on it. We’ve got some of the best football on the planet right here in this area.

Keep it clean: I am a season ticket holder for the USA Jaguars football team and am delighted they beat Western Kentucky. However, I have one message for everybody associated with USA Athletics. Clean up the parking lot at Ladd Stadium. Clean up the bathrooms at Ladd Stadium. And for goodness sake, clean up the concession areas at Ladd Stadium. In other words, clean up your act USA.

In the big leagues now: The Saints have this Heisman Trophy
winner from Alabama who had a great college career. But he is a
liability to the Saints. There have been several times that I’ve seen
where Mark Ingram has to make a yard for a crucial first down or
touchdown, and he wiggles around and gets caught in the backfield. I
see Ingram being traded or released when his contract is over.

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